Charles Babbage started designing the Analytical Engine once he lost interest in his older machine, the Difference Engine. His goal for the Analytical Engine was for it to be able to read a program from punched cards, figure and store answers, and print those answers on paper. But Babbage died before he had a chance to complete the machine, and his son made a model from Babbage's notes and drawings. The end result was that it worked, and because of his ideas, Babbage is called the Father of Computers.
